Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Title | Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | James Evans |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0691174407 |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, October 19, 2016-April 23, 2017.
A Portable Cosmos
Title | A Portable Cosmos PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Jones |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019973934X |
The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought.
Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Title | Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | S. Cuomo |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2007-08-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521810736 |
This book uses five case-studies to set ancient technical knowledge in its political, social and intellectual context.
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science PDF eBook |
Author | Liba Taub |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2020-01-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107092485 |
Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.
Hellenistic Astronomy
Title | Hellenistic Astronomy PDF eBook |
Author | Alan C. Bowen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 783 |
Release | 2020-02-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004400567 |
In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.
The Routledge Companion to Strabo
Title | The Routledge Companion to Strabo PDF eBook |
Author | Daniela Dueck |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 2017-03-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317445864 |
The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, and zoological details, and much more. This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author, and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.
Roman Portable Sundials
Title | Roman Portable Sundials PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. A. Talbert |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 0190273488 |
Talbert investigates miniature sundials which can be adjusted for the owner's whereabouts. They incorporate a list of locations and latitudes for ready reference, data that offers insight into Romans' worldviews. To some perhaps, these sundials were primarily symbols of scientific awareness as well as imperial mastery of time and space.